Love of Wisdom

This series contains the first English translation of the letters of the philosopher priest, Marsilio Ficino, who helped to shape the Renaissance worldview. This volume brings together correspondence from the last decade of Marsilio Ficino's life, spanning the period late 1489 to spring 1491.

"This body of work constitutes a crucial attempt at intellectual and emotional synthesis. Ficino strives to combine in a system at once harmonious and formally coherent three great strands of doctrine or speculation: Platonism, Christianity and that exceedingly rich current of hermetic, “magical” or cabalistic lore which underlies much of Renaissance culture."
Prof. George Steiner, The Sunday Times

"Only a life dedicated by choice to the study and cultivation of truth is lived in the fullness of bliss beyond movement and beyond time."   Ficino

"Marsilio Ficino was at the very fountainhead of some of the most characteristic and influential aspects of the Italian Renaissance."
C.B. Schmitt, The Times Literary Supplement

"Happy is the man for whom all things end well: but they do so only for him who uses them well."   Ficino